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6. Who tested taste aversion learning with wolves?

  • Garcia
  • Buss
  • Zimbardo
  • Freud

7. The Embryo Protection Hypothesis states that....

  • The reason they are sick is to protect the baby - sick gets rid of any toxins in the body
  • They are sick of pregnancy
  • The embryo is protecting the mother
  • The embryo is sick too

8. What do we use to test the evolutionary hypothesis instead?

  • The behavioural approach
  • History
  • Knowledge, fossil evidence, teeth, digestive system of skeletons
  • Common knowledge and scientific discoveries from previous studies

9. This model suggests we have a homeostatic perception of hunger and satiety

  • Feeding centre
  • Dual centre model of feeding
  • Stress model
  • Reproductive system

10. Cummings did a study to show...

  • Satiety signals
  • Ob mice got fat after taking away leptin
  • There was a relationship between production of ghrelin and hunger
  • Hypothalamus role in hunger

11. What does the hormone leptin do?

  • Satiety centre
  • Tells us we are full
  • Signal to brain telling you you're full
  • Opposite of hunger

12. At what stage does morning sickness occur?

  • After you are pregnant
  • During pregnancy
  • Early stages of pregnancy
  • Late stages of pregnancy

13. What is the lateral hypothalamus?

  • Signal to brain telling you you're full
  • Satiety centre
  • Feeding centre
  • A structural change or injury

14. What is the evolutionary hypothesis' disadvantages?

  • Doesn't support psychology being a science
  • It's wrong
  • We can't test history as it's already happened and ignores social, cultural and behavioural factors
  • It's bad for the environment

15. As more fat is produced...

  • The ventromedial hypothalamus stops working
  • More leptin is produced and the hypothalamus is stimulated to reduce food intake
  • Less leptin is produced and the ventromedial hypothalamus works
  • The bigger weight you become

16. What is food neophobia?

  • Sleeping with food
  • Afraid of food
  • Fear of the new - not wanting to try new food
  • Allergic to food

17. What role does the hypothalamus play in eating?

  • Signal to brain telling you you're full
  • Feeding centre
  • Regulates homeostasis and acts like a thermostat to hunger in starting/stopping eating behaviour
  • Satiety centre

18. What was it likely that those who were good at acquiring skills to kill and get food would have?

  • Increased survival and reproductive success with power and esteem in the pack
  • Get married quicker
  • They would be fatter than those who didn't
  • They weren't able to get a lady

19. What is taste aversion learning?

  • Eating too little
  • A food making us sick and avoiding it in future
  • Eating too much
  • Crying when eating

20. As food leaves the stomach a hormone called CCK is released. What does this do?

  • Induces satiety and can also act as a hunger suppressant (opposite of ghrelin)
  • Acts like the lateral hypothalamus
  • Feeding centre
  • Makes you hungry